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• Check if you’re the victim of a database breach with ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ – Enter your email address to see if you’re credentials have been compromised from any of six high-profile hacks. • U.S. Spy Rocket Has Octopus-Themed ‘Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach’ Logo. Seriously. – It’s almost like a parody . . …

• Apple Buys Twitter Analytics Startup Topsy Labs – The Wall Street Journal reports Apple is paying more than $200 million for Topsy, one of the few companies will full access to Twitter’s complete “fire hose” of data. Topsy’s search technology cold be used to improve Siri, or as part of Apple’s ad services. • …

• Amazon Floats the Notion of Delivery Drones – In a “60 Minutes” interview, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos says the company is working on drones that would deliver products to your door in 30 minutes. The biggest hurdle: Regulations. And Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future • Disruptions:- Want Calls on Planes? You’ll Need …

• America falls a dismal 31st on ranking of consumer download speeds (report) – We’re behind Moldova and Uruguay on the list, released by SpeedTest.net. • Was it smart to ditch unlimited data? Revisiting my decision, one year later – GeekWire’s Todd Bishop dumped a grandfathered AT&T unlimited data plan in favor of a shared-data …

• TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It – Both broadcast and cable ratings are down. And there are some stats that show a significant number of people are dropping broadband Internet, too. • Intel Said Asking $500 Million for Streaming Pay-TV Unit – After considering a run at becoming a …

• NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software – According to documents Edward Snowden. The malware can create “sleeper cells” botnets that can be activated at will. Also N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power • White House advisers: Government ‘rarely’ follows cybersecurity best practices – Which means that our government servers are vulnerable …

• Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who’s Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins – This is so evil it seems like something out of a movie. • Ben Bernanke’s letter to Congress: Bitcoin and other virtual currencies “may hold long-term promise” and Wild day for Bitcoin: currency cracks $700, feds say no new laws are needed • …

• Apple releases iOS 7.0.4 & iOS 6.1.5 with FaceTime bug fix – FaceTime had been failing for some users. • Apple Stores resort to pen and paper as point-of-sale outages continue – The stores go old school as their bar code scanning systems go down. • The Inside Story of How the iPad Got …

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